Posted on 04/16/2016 7:55:04 AM PDT by mandaladon
Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks.
The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation, a bipartisan Senate bill, since Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last month told Washington lawmakers his country’s position, according to The New York Times.
Al-Juberi purportedly informed the lawmakers during a trip to Washington that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell as much as $750 billion in Treasury securities and other American financial assets on the world market, fearing the legislation could become law and U.S. courts would then freeze the assets.
The revelations about the Saudis’ ultimatum come several days after reports that President Obama will soon decide whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed documents suspected of showing a Saudi connection to the deadly 9/11 terror attacks.
Former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham told Fox News on Tuesday that the White House told him a decision on whether to declassify the documents would be made within 60 days.
Graham helped lead a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks.
The Bush and Obama administrations have refused to unseal the documents, arguing their release would jeopardize national security. Critics claim the reluctance is a calculated move to hide Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the al Qaeda terror attack that killed almost 3,000 people on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
Obama had come under renewed pressure to release the documents ahead of a scheduled trip next week to Saudi Arabia for a summit of Persian Gulf leaders.
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Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
Good grief! If I had that much money the last thing I would want would be a job with the responsibilities and headaches of POTUS!
Yes, they have import labor and the connected within the royal family manage that aspect. But, are they setting up shop in Saudi with a non-technical populace or taking over elsewhere, intent on funneling profits to their wealth fund? They are buying assets outside Saudi in the developed world, as has China.
The elites’ foreign entanglements are so lovely. Not.
Indeed, it will take a true miracle to save the Republic.
As for batt eared bolshevik, I did not know muzzies could be bolsheviks but I guess anything is possible now.
When does gallows humor set in among us?
Greed.......when you never have enough.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 26— In a blunt criticism of President Bush, Saudi Arabia's senior intelligence official today called Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, ''a man of peace'' and warned that any action by the United States to weaken him would destroy prospects for a peace settlement and have serious repercussions for the kingdom . . . A classified American intelligence report taken from a Saudi intelligence survey in mid-October of educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41 concluded that 95 percent of them supported Mr. bin Laden's cause, according to a senior administration official with access to intelligence reports. Prince Nawwaf confirmed the existence of the survey but did not specify the level of support. He attributed the support to what he called feelings of the people against the United States, largely, he said, because of its unflinching support of Israel against the Palestinians . . . .
My emphasis
And Bush said, “Yessa Massa, anything you say.”
"A classified American intelligence report taken from a Saudi intelligence survey in mid-October of educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41 concluded that 95 percent of them supported Mr. bin Laden's cause, according to a senior administration official with access to intelligence reports."
How much do used mosques typically sell for?
I want to agree with your wrath . If this is true, I want their oil. That means ALL THEIR OIL!! I am hearing that they paid for flight lessons for those Wahhabi bastards. What we see is political payoffs to keep this from the American people and the families of the DEAD!! I think Trump will scorch their earth , THEY WILL PAY FOR ALL 911 damages!! The economic damages — the property loss. The wrongful death and they should do it in 30 days or we OCCUPY THEIR DAMNED COUNTY FOREVER!! WHY WAS THIS HIDDEN???? HIDING THIS WAS CRIMINAL!!!!!!
Many here have preached the Wahhabi threat since 911. It is ignored by the establishment — why? I think they get paid to ignore it. I may be wrong. Many know that i am occasionally wrong. I always admit I am wrong but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this could literally propel Trump to the presidency by acclamation to go KICK THEIR Saudi ASS!!
Good. They can start by selling the Bin Laden family properties.
agreed.
One good thing about this year's election is watching the loathsome Bush family fall into political oblivion. Jeb can now help his stuttering idiot older brother paint puppies and clowns or whatever it is he does these days.
Qui bono. Period. The Saudis are about to get served a crap sandwich, and my only hope is that the forced feeding is televised. And don’t forget the double bonus round- America in general and the Republican party in particular, gets rid of the parasitic Bush family influence when it happens.
Ask the owners of high end BBQ pork joints.
There is HELL to pay now. That renouncement admitted culpability. They could have said” We didn’t do it!” But instead they said “ If you punish us for what we did . we will RETALIATE ! That is and ADMISSION!! Scorch the earth with these bastards!! I knew this was coming.
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